A South American scholar, Unger, defines democracy as the arrangements by which society agrees to govern itself or each other. In this definition, he introduces the notion that if it fits that society, it is its democracy. The Chinese, on the other hand, have, over centuries, been thinking and designing a [...]
Bra Jabu Mabuza was a quintessential South African who combined the world of practical entrepreneurship, street wisdom, profoundly connecting networking skills, and the finesse of 'wat bang'. He rose to his stature through hard work and understanding of a relationship between own energy and output. In his short life he became [...]
The National Society for Black Engineers will be in a breakfast meeting with the Minister of Water Affairs and Sanitation on Friday, 18th June 2021. The breakfast provides an opportunity for the NSBE to dialogue with the Minister, and potentially get a members-only response to the ongoing tensions between Black [...]
The coronavirus has redefined the entirety of how humanity relates with itself, the environment and each other. Almost all arrangements that humanity devised to deal with economics, politics, science and technology, commerce, and education have been redefined. It has accelerated humanity into a world that was imagined, thus changing how [...]
Jaa Neh! South Africa is standing on an economic quicksand that threatens to have it defined as a failed state. Its 'fearful trip' might have begun. It is in a state where thinking about how it reimagines itself is as equally important as doing what needs to be done to [...]
In an interview on ENCA, the last whites only elected President of South Africa, Mr FW De Klerk had the following to say about the possible election of Cyril Ramaphosa as the 5th Black President of South Africa, "everything is not dark in South Africa, there is light at the [...]
As the month of June rages with its cold fronts, demanding of humanity in our country to rush for warmer clothes, creating opportunities to congregate around fires in search of heat, and confirming that it is a season of intimacy and intimate conversations, the question is what is the conversation [...]
Very rarely do we hear of the passing of a person that all are asking if it is true or not. The meaning of untimely is in this instance not one of those associated with compliance nomenclature to announce death or conclude an obituary piece. Untimely has in this instance [...]
When in 1906, in his senior year at the Columbia University, a young Pixley ka Seme was awarded the Curtis Medal, Columbia's highest oratorical honor, he laid a foundation to what was to be known as Pan=africanism. His speech emphasized the fact that Africa was not someone’s political dormitory but [...]
President Ramaphosa will undoubtedly go into history of South Africa as a leader that stood firm against the scourge of corruption. Elected with a mandate to rebuild and unite the ANC after its punishingly divisive 54 National Elective Conference, he chose to rebuild and unite the ANC upon what has [...]
